Top native plants
58 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Climbing Prairie Rose
Rosa setigera
keystone
caterpillars
105
hosts
10
food
35
flowers
140
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Riverbank Grape
Vitis riparia
keystone
caterpillars
59
hosts
8
food
80
flowers
7
shelter
1
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Frost Grape
Vitis vulpina
keystone
caterpillars
53
hosts
8
food
87
flowers
26
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Summer Grape
Vitis aestivalis
keystone
caterpillars
53
hosts
8
food
77
flowers
8
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Muscadine
Vitis rotundifolia
keystone
caterpillars
52
hosts
9
food
81
flowers
16
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Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
keystone
caterpillars
34
hosts
3
food
54
flowers
59
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Glaucous Honeysuckle
Lonicera dioica
caterpillars
25
hosts
3
food
13
flowers
39
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Hairy Honeysuckle
Lonicera hirsuta
caterpillars
22
hosts
3
food
14
flowers
34
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Coral Honeysuckle
Lonicera sempervirens
caterpillars
20
hosts
4
food
15
flowers
66
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Yellow Honeysuckle
Lonicera flava
caterpillars
15
hosts
1
food
8
flowers
28
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Sevenleaf Creeper
Parthenocissus heptaphylla
keystone
caterpillars
13
food
1
flowers
1
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Roundleaf Greenbrier
Smilax rotundifolia
caterpillars
12
food
27
flowers
7
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Carolina Vetch
Vicia caroliniana
caterpillars
11
food
7
flowers
69
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Purple Passionflower
Passiflora incarnata
caterpillars
10
bees
1
food
1
flowers
13
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American Wisteria
Wisteria frutescens
caterpillars
10
food
1
flowers
15
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Moonflower
Ipomoea alba
caterpillars
8
bees
4
hosts
3
food
6
flowers
22
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Eastern Poison Ivy
Toxicodendron radicans
caterpillars
8
hosts
6
food
42
flowers
25
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Smooth Carrionflower
Smilax herbacea
caterpillars
8
food
6
flowers
16
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Wild Potato Vine
Ipomoea pandurata
caterpillars
7
bees
5
hosts
3
food
7
flowers
44
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American Trumpet Vine
Campsis radicans
caterpillars
7
hosts
1
food
8
flowers
85
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Yellow Passionflower
Passiflora lutea
caterpillars
7
bees
1
food
3
flowers
32
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Bristly Greenbrier
Smilax tamnoides
caterpillars
7
food
27
flowers
23
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Sawbrier
Smilax glauca
caterpillars
7
food
6
flowers
2
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Red Morning Glory
Ipomoea coccinea
caterpillars
6
bees
1
hosts
2
food
5
flowers
16
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Saw Greenbrier
Smilax bona-nox
caterpillars
6
food
31
flowers
5
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Coral Greenbrier
Smilax walteri
caterpillars
6
food
7
flowers
2
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Eastern Milk-pea
Galactia regularis
caterpillars
6
food
1
flowers
17
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Saltmarsh Morning-glory
Ipomoea sagittata
caterpillars
5
bees
4
hosts
3
food
5
flowers
20
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Virgin's-bower
Clematis virginiana
caterpillars
5
hosts
1
food
7
flowers
59
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Vase-vine Leatherflower
Clematis viorna
caterpillars
5
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
16
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Swamp Leatherflower
Clematis crispa
caterpillars
5
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
14
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Butterfly Pea
Centrosema virginianum
caterpillars
5
food
1
flowers
13
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Anglepod
Gonolobus suberosus
caterpillars
5
food
1
flowers
2
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Hedge Bindweed
Calystegia sepium
caterpillars
3
bees
2
hosts
1
food
8
flowers
67
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White Leaf Leather Flower
Clematis glaucophylla
caterpillars
3
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
8
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American Bittersweet
Celastrus scandens
caterpillars
3
food
7
flowers
18
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Lesser Balloon Vine
Cardiospermum halicacabum
caterpillars
3
food
2
flowers
4
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Scarlet Leather Flower
Clematis texensis
caterpillars
3
food
1
flowers
6
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Cross Vine
Bignonia capreolata
caterpillars
3
food
1
flowers
5
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Carolina Climbing-milkweed
Matelea carolinensis
caterpillars
3
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American Groundnut
Apios americana
caterpillars
2
hosts
1
food
7
flowers
31
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Sessile Dodder
Cuscuta compacta
caterpillars
2
hosts
1
food
2
flowers
1
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Creeping Cucumber
Melothria pendula
caterpillars
2
food
1
flowers
6
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Sidebeak Pencilflower
Stylosanthes biflora
caterpillars
2
flowers
18
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Woolly Dutchman's Pipe
Aristolochia tomentosa
caterpillars
2
flowers
15
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Southern Blue Monkshood
Aconitum uncinatum
caterpillars
2
flowers
1
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Pipevine
Aristolochia macrophylla
caterpillars
2
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Large Bindweed
Calystegia silvatica
caterpillars
1
bees
1
hosts
1
food
4
flowers
14
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Supplejack
Berchemia scandens
caterpillars
1
food
10
flowers
6
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Moonseed
Menispermum canadense
caterpillars
1
food
10